"Making cigarettes and other combusted tobacco products minimally addictive or nonaddictive would help save lives." The FDA funded a randomized trial published in 2018 that found "reduced-nicotine cigarettes versus standard-nicotine cigarettes reduced nicotine exposure and dependence and the number of cigarettes smoked." Another FDA-funded study found that, if a nicotine reduction policy were enacted in 2020, it could result in more than 33 million people not becoming regular smokers, and prevent more than 8 million deaths from tobacco-related illnesses by 2100
More smokers in Tobacco Nation also suffer from other health conditions that accompany tobacco use compared to the general adult smoking population
This article was originally published on May 23, 2023
This isnt a cigarette, though
The mix of stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamines with fentanyl a synthetic opioid 50 times as powerful as heroin is driving what experts call the opioid epidemics fourth wave. The mixture of stimulants and fentanyl presents powerful challenges to efforts to reduce overdoses because many users of stimulants dont know they are at risk of ingesting opioids, so they dont take overdose precautions
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